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Gender refers to the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex (APA, 2012). Gender is a social construct and a social identity. Use the term “gender” when referring to people as social groups.
15 lis 2023 · APA Dictionary of Psychology. gender. Updated on 11/15/2023. n. the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for different genders.
Gender identity refers to “a person’s deep felt, inherent sense of being a girl, woman, or female; a boy, a man, or male; a blend of male or female; [or another] gender” (APA, 2015, p. 862).
In congruence with the American Psychological Association’s (APA) National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula (APA 2022), this unit lesson plan is intended to illuminate the construct of gender as a distinct construct from sexual orientation.
To this aim, we deconstructed the concept of ‘gender’ as consisting of four facets: physiological/bodily aspects, self-defined gender identity, legal gender and gender expression (including social norms related to appearance and behaviour).
15 lis 2023 · gender identity. a person’s psychological sense of self in relation to their gender. Many people describe gender identity as a deeply felt, inherent sense of being a boy, a man, or male; a girl, a woman, or female; or a nonbinary gender (e.g., genderqueer, gender-neutral, agender, gender-fluid, transgender) that may or may not correspond to a ...
1.1.3. What is a Psychology of Gender? Before we can define gender, we must understand the meaning of sex. Though sex and gender are sometimes used interchangeably in everyday language, they have distinct meanings in the scientific contexts of collecting data and conducting research. Sex refers to the biological, anatomical aspects of an ...
